Great Time makes all things dim.
Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.
Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came
Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.